Oh. Well, that's good. We all know that people intentionally become homeless for the free toilets and so they don't have to pay to charge their cell phones. Now they'll get jobs and homes and be productive members of society!

A lot of the success of shopping malls has to do with the availability of clean, accessible restrooms. Malls with dirty restrooms or insufficient restrooms drive away paying customers and tilt the balance towards poor and criminal elements.

The same holds for cities. Cities with numerous, clean public restrooms are pleasant to live in. People want to be there and they spend their money there. Cities with few public restrooms are more dangerous and have more poor people, on average, than cities with many public restrooms.

Another benefit of public restrooms is that the poor actually have a place to clean themselves; a huge boon to the nouveaux poor who more than likely need a place to clean up before hitting the streets to look for employment.

This is a terrible decision. The opposite should be done. More restrooms and more full-time employees to keep the facilities maintained. Heck, hire some of the poor to maintain the things.

AverageAmericanGuy:A lot of the success of shopping malls has to do with the availability of clean, accessible restrooms. Malls with dirty restrooms or insufficient restrooms drive away paying customers and tilt the balance towards poor and criminal elements.

The same holds for cities. Cities with numerous, clean public restrooms are pleasant to live in. People want to be there and they spend their money there. Cities with few public restrooms are more dangerous and have more poor people, on average, than cities with many public restrooms.

Another benefit of public restrooms is that the poor actually have a place to clean themselves; a huge boon to the nouveaux poor who more than likely need a place to clean up before hitting the streets to look for employment.

This is a terrible decision. The opposite should be done. More restrooms and more full-time employees to keep the facilities maintained. Heck, hire some of the poor to maintain the things.

I was homeless and will most likely be homeless again so I'm getting a kick. Guess what?, When you take away the ability to earn a living, for the majority of people, then close all the doors on Sundays because there's no business because there's no job's and there's no consumers so every things closed on Sundays including the shelter? Well don't complain when someone craps on your lawn.

Homeless people suck. But you usually have to give them a few bucks or some crack to get them motivated first. Take it from me - you haven't really lived until you've had a blowjob from a woman with no teeth.

AverageAmericanGuy:A lot of the success of shopping malls has to do with the availability of clean, accessible restrooms. Malls with dirty restrooms or insufficient restrooms drive away paying customers and tilt the balance towards poor and criminal elements.

The same holds for cities. Cities with numerous, clean public restrooms are pleasant to live in. People want to be there and they spend their money there. Cities with few public restrooms are more dangerous and have more poor people, on average, than cities with many public restrooms.

Another benefit of public restrooms is that the poor actually have a place to clean themselves; a huge boon to the nouveaux poor who more than likely need a place to clean up before hitting the streets to look for employment.

This is a terrible decision. The opposite should be done. More restrooms and more full-time employees to keep the facilities maintained. Heck, hire some of the poor to maintain the things.

Listen, I've had it with these lucky duckies living in the luxury of getting to bathe in the sink and sleep outside in the mosquitoes. They don't deserve that kind of luxury.

When I was a kid, the closest thing to a park in Columbia, SC was the capitol building itself. My mom liked spending time there, although there was no public restrooms available. Your only choice was to find a restaurant and there were fastfood locations to choose from, as oppose to pass through a fine dining eatery. Bojangle's was the first choice for many as well as a busy place for eating. The manager didn't like people stopping by for a bathroom break so he put combination locks on the restroom doors. It lasted for awhile before the city forced him to remove the locks. I understand restrooms cost money, however if cities put any thought into keeping folks visiting they need to cover potty needs for folks.

Even Animaniacs covered this when they did the 'pocket fisherman' gag. Little fisherman fits in your pocket and comes with his own porta potty because he has to eat.

Atomic Spunk:Homeless people suck. But you usually have to give them a few bucks or some crack to get them motivated first. Take it from me - you haven't really lived until you've had a blowjob from a woman with no teeth.

41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

45 "He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.

AverageAmericanGuy:A lot of the success of shopping malls has to do with the availability of clean, accessible restrooms. Malls with dirty restrooms or insufficient restrooms drive away paying customers and tilt the balance towards poor and criminal elements.

The same holds for cities. Cities with numerous, clean public restrooms are pleasant to live in. People want to be there and they spend their money there. Cities with few public restrooms are more dangerous and have more poor people, on average, than cities with many public restrooms.

Another benefit of public restrooms is that the poor actually have a place to clean themselves; a huge boon to the nouveaux poor who more than likely need a place to clean up before hitting the streets to look for employment.

This is a terrible decision. The opposite should be done. More restrooms and more full-time employees to keep the facilities maintained. Heck, hire some of the poor to maintain the things.

You know you're poor when you save a single kleenex to wipe yourself with after you poop a large Hershey's kiss of a poop in the middle of a dirt road on the railroad tracks. 5th largest city in the country too.

I am blessed but I cannot believe how many of us are a few weeks from hell. Illness, loss of employment, crime, act of Nature...jeebus, hug your loved ones tonight.

Atomic Spunk:Homeless people suck. But you usually have to give them a few bucks or some crack to get them motivated first. Take it from me - you haven't really lived until you've had a blowjob from a woman with no teeth.

Do you really, as a man, feel no disgrace in saying things about people, on the Internet, that you would never have the balls to say to their faces? Because I am pretty sure that youer soft, white, middle-class, sheltered ass would NEVER have the guts to walk up to a homelss person and say that. I'm not saying you're wrong - I'm just saying you are a punk, and less than a man.

41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

45 "He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.

My kiddy bible studies seem to remember a tithing system the Jews had in the Old Testament - ie, a set portion of each field of crop had to be set aside an-harvested, for the poor people to come and harvest themselves. Ie, organised welfare was stipulated in the Bible.

1. require a license to conduct an outdoor business within 50 feet of an intersection or highway ramp2. have cops arrest all the begging bums because none of them will have the license3. make sure the cops take the bum to a police annex at the edge of town in some godforssaken industrial wasteland, at least a couple of miles from the nearest busstop or public phone4. make sure that while the bum is being "processed" his cell phone is discharged or otherwise has technical difficulties of a permanent nature5. after a few long walks back to his bum hideout the bum will eventually realize he isn't wanted and find another town to leech off of

I loved visitng Minnesota because it was a high of 13 all week, no mosquitos or bums